A lengthy article by Lisa Neff praises the 40th
anniversary of the adoption of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of
1972. But due to enforcement of this law, by 1999 colleges had eliminated 171
men’s wrestling teams, 84 men’s tennis teams, 56 men’s gymnastic teams and
men’s track squads. Universities that might have initiated men’s soccer,
undoubtedly declined to do so because of the Title IX requirement, but it is
hard to have statistics on what might have occurred. How could a law meant to prevent sex
discrimination in sports be used to exclude men from participation in college
sports?
Supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 assured Americans
that the proposed law would not be a quota bill. The liberals sponsoring the
legislation asserted that hiring and firing to establish or maintain a racial
balance was illegal. Yet, by the time of the liberal Nixon Administration,
quotas had become mandatory. Because the law forbade quotas, euphemisms were
created, such as “goals and time-tables” and more recently, “diversity.”
To enforce the Civil Rights Act, the EEOC required
quota-like practices to achieve racial balance. Democrats and liberal Republicans
forget that affirmative action on behalf of one group is negative action
against others. In practice it amounts to discrimination against whites, males
and sometimes Asians.
Like the Civil Rights Act, Title IX provides a safeguard
against the quota mentality, rejecting “preferential or disparate treatment
because of imbalance” or “statistical evidence of imbalance.” But under
President Jimmy Carter, the quota crowd in the Civil Rights section of the
Dept. of Education demanded that colleges seek to have women in sports.
Lisa Neff writes, “A 2005-06 study found women make up 55
percent of the student population at NCAA schools but less than 45 percent of
the athlete population.” Implicit is the
belief that there is something wrong with that statistic.
Should men be discouraged from sports until women are
represented at a rate of 55 percent? But shat about women who are pregnant or
not interested in sports? What about women who embrace traditional feminine
roles? Democrats will keep pushing women into teams, even when they have little
interest in them, thereby denying access by young men to college sports.
We should end affirmative action and offshoots like Title
IX. The fastest way to destroy these injustices a is to vote against liberal
Republicans like Nixon who made affirmation action a national policy and
against the Democrats who seek to expand these injustices.
Hugh Murray
Just last week, July 2012, the Obama Administration
announced it plans to extend Title IX to the universities departments of math
and science. They will soon be requiring
55% female math and science majors. More
quota madness from the Democrats.--------HM
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